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2.5 Admins 233: 2.005 Admins

February 6, 2025 Joe

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We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.

Plugs

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Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance

News/discussion

Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage

Migrating away from bcachefs

Free Consulting

We were asked about malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.

SysCloud

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Linux Matters 48: Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures

February 4, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux Matters

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:01 — 25.4MB)

In this episode:

Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.
Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.
- keyshield – A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
- archive-vbulletin-thread – A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 319

February 3, 2025 Joe

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What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.

Discoveries

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redshift

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1Password Extended Access Management

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Linux After Dark – Episode 88

January 31, 2025 Joe

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When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.

Boomstick

Vesktop

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2.5 Admins 232: S:

January 30, 2025 Joe

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An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

Plugs

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Klara Webinar, Feb 13th: RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

News

MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

Free Consulting

We were asked about tricky offsite backups, why Two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

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Automox

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Late Night Linux – Episode 318

January 28, 2025 Joe

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We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.

News

Free Our Feeds

Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone

Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025

Foldable future?

Discoveries

BarCamp Surrey

Laura and popey tell us about BarCamp Surrey

ServerMania

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 116

January 26, 2025 Joe

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 20:30 — 16.7MB)

Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 22

January 24, 2025 Joe

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In this episode we discuss some challenges around using and testing lower environments, how to easily run integration tests using Testcontainers, and some of the pitfalls around using GitOps to deploy your applications.

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SysCloud

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2.5 Admins 231: USB 3.2.2-ubuntu2

January 23, 2025 Joe

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Microsoft didn’t control an important domain that it was using and end up red-faced, the dangers of using free VPN apps, a proof of concept exploit is out for last year’s SSH vulnerability, USB is getting slightly less confusing labels, and swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.

News

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

PoC Exploit Released For OpenSSH Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

An updated USB logo will now mark the fastest docking stations

Free Consulting

We were asked about swapping the motherboard in a TrueNAS SCALE system.

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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Linux Matters 47: Not a Bar or a Camp

January 21, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux Matters

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:10 — 23.9MB)

In this episode:

Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career.
Alan is organising BarCamp Surrey at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025.
Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship.

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